Science and Culture Today Discovering Design in Nature

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Douglas Axe
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Günter Bechly
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Michael J. Behe
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David Berlinski
David Berlinski
Eric Cassell
David Coppedge
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William A. Dembski
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Michael Denton
Michael Egnor
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Michael Flannery
Ann Gauger
Howard Glicksman
Guillermo Gonzalez at Garden of the Gods, July 2022
Guillermo Gonzalez
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Bruce Gordon
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Eric Hedin
Cornelius Hunter
Cornelius G. Hunter
Stephen J. Iacoboni
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David Klinghoffer
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Wolf-Ekkehard Lönnig
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Casey Luskin
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Andrew McDiarmid
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Jonathan McLatchie
Stephen C. Meyer
Brian Miller
Walter Myers III
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Paul Nelson
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Denyse O’Leary
Emily Reeves
Emily Sandico
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Granville Sewell
Robert Shedinger
Geoffrey Simmons
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Wesley J. Smith
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Rob Stadler
Neil Thomas
Jonathan Wells
John G. West
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Daniel Witt
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Jonathan Witt

Topic

The Design Inference

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Author
David Klinghoffer
Date
October 28, 2024
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Arts
Biology
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Physics
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An Artist Talks with Dembski about Intelligent Design

David Klinghoffer
October 28, 2024
Arts, Biology, Faith & Science, Intelligent Design, Physics
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Karen Wong began thinking about the “specified qualities that show up in art” and how “those qualities also show up everywhere else in the universe.” Read More ›
DNA
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Author
David Klinghoffer
Date
August 21, 2024
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Biology
Evolution
Fine-tuning
Intelligent Design
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William Dembski: What’s the Best Evidence for Intelligent Design?

David Klinghoffer
August 21, 2024
Biology, Evolution, Fine-tuning, Intelligent Design
2
What exactly is the very best evidence for a designing agent behind nature? There are a number of contenders and, interestingly, not all ID proponents agree. Read More ›
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Stephen J. Iacoboni
Date
August 12, 2024
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Biology
Intelligent Design
Life Sciences
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Discerning the Shape of a “New Biology”

Stephen J. Iacoboni
August 12, 2024
Biology, Intelligent Design, Life Sciences
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Purpose and intentionality permeate and in fact define the living state, in contrast to the inanimate. Read More ›
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Author
David Klinghoffer
Date
June 26, 2024
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Evolution
Fine-tuning
Intelligent Design
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Stephen Meyer, Jonathan Pageau: Why Intelligent Design Is Breaking into the Mainstream

David Klinghoffer
June 26, 2024
Evolution, Fine-tuning, Intelligent Design
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The “experts” undermined their pre-pandemic authority so that many people are willing to take a skeptical look at what prestige science says. Read More ›
right whale
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Author
Jonathan Witt
Date
June 3, 2024
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Environment & Climate
Intelligent Design
Scientific Freedom
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“Move Along, Nothing to See Here”: What Happens When You Challenge a Dominant Narrative

Jonathan Witt
June 3, 2024
Environment & Climate, Intelligent Design, Scientific Freedom
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William Dembski no longer has to be coy about the challenge his design filter poses for modern evolutionary theory. Read More ›
City of David
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Author
David Coppedge
Date
May 28, 2024
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Archaeology
Botany
Geology
Intelligent Design
Linguistics
Paleontology
Physics
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Intelligent Design in Action: Pattern Matching in Archaeology

David Coppedge
May 28, 2024
Archaeology, Botany, Geology, Intelligent Design, Linguistics, Paleontology, Physics
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Our uniform experience of intelligent causes allows us to make inferences about design, even without knowing the identity of the designers. Read More ›
specified complexity
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Author
William A. Dembski
Date
May 6, 2024
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Evolution
Intelligent Design
Technology
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Why Specified Complexity Is Key to Detecting Design

William A. Dembski
May 6, 2024
Evolution, Intelligent Design, Technology
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In plain English here is what specified complexity is and why it is able to detect design. Read More ›
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Author
William A. Dembski
Date
May 1, 2024
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Evolution
Faith & Science
Science Education
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Dawkins the New Cultural Christian

William A. Dembski
May 1, 2024
Evolution, Faith & Science, Science Education
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What Richard Dawkins seems not to have realized — or perhaps now is realizing too late — is that scientific materialism is the suicide of reason. Read More ›
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Author
Daniel Witt
Date
April 10, 2024
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Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
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Synergies All the Way Down 

Daniel Witt
April 10, 2024
Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design
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Examples of synergy cited by Peter Corning include multicellularity; sexual reproduction; emperor penguins huddling together for warmth.  Read More ›
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Author
William A. Dembski
Date
April 4, 2024
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Evolution
Intelligent Design
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The Connection Between Intelligence and Information

William A. Dembski
April 4, 2024
Evolution, Intelligent Design
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Information is everywhere in the sciences. Yet scientists often ignore the connection of intelligence to information. Read More ›

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